Writing your travel blog

I was invited to give this talk to final year Cruise Management undergraduates, They are working on a travel blogging activity for their assessed fieldwork in Belgium. Here are my Powerpoint slides if you would like to go through them again. They are stored on my Google Drive, so for the best viewing experience it is worth using your free Google login, or opening a free Google Mail and Google Account. This will also give you free cloud storage for your presentations.

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Call for chapters

Call for chapters Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism What will tourism look like in the 2030s? Tourism destination development will take sustainability as a given. Social media and emerging technologies will be integrated in the stories of co-created visitor experience. Are you working in these converging areas? Following the success of our research monograph with Routledge and its teaching companion, we are looking for contributors for a new collection. Follow this webpage for updates, please https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/call-for-chapters.html Please scroll right down for updates... Book production timeline continued at the end of this page... Click to view Download free eBook Chapters of up to 8000 words, including references. Each chapter to explore a tourism or hospitality development as a case study with details of underpinning theory. Provide example qu...

PhD in Contemporary Travel Writing

PhD in Contemporary Travel Writing Syddansk Universitet Writing Travel in the Twenty-First Century: Mobility and Authenticity in the Planetary Emergency Travel is older than human civilization itself. Migration, trade, tourism and pilgrimage, all are forms of human movement that have existed for millennia. Yet travel is no longer what it used to be. Slow travel, flight shame, sustainable travel, eco- and anti-tourism, staycation and microadventures are but some of many recent terms testifying to a growing awareness that mobility has become inextricably intertwined with planetary concerns, regardless of whether it is the short distance of a commute to work, or that of long-distance globetrotting. With 2024 likely proving to be the hottest year on record and tourists evacuated by boat from uncontrollable forest fires on Rhodes in 2023, all the while tech billionaires promise us trips to Mars and hotels on the moon (while others perish trying to reach the Titanic), we are also told t...

Literary Caen and the Channel Ports

Thursday morning, 27th July 2023. The research project on slow tourism for the Channel ports is still very much in Step 1, the Library Stage. The earliest step in our process methodology using the book for travel researchers. In the last few days, though, a literary connection with the city of Caen has begun to emerge. It's exciting enough to report here on Travel Writers Online. Using dialogue journaling a trustworthy link has been established with a fellow blogger, Claude at the blog Livres d'un jour . Claude had published a review of a detective novel, Canicule sanglante (2022) by Pierre Guinot-Delery (b.1949). The title would translate as The Bloody Heatwave . The review starts like this: " The city of Caen is suffocating under the effect of a heat wave. One morning, the body of the vice-president of the chamber of commerce and business leader is found dead in front of the courthouse." That was enough to make me order a copy from Amazon. It's due to arri...

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